June Veecock

June Veecock

Mar 20, 2023 | Oral History Project, Video

Guyana-born June Veecock served for 19 years as the director of human rights for the Ontario Federation of Labour.  In this interview, she highlights some of her human rights and labour activism.   Interviewed by Jennifer Carson and Elizabeth Abbott. Carmen Henry and...
John Maclennan

John Maclennan

Mar 3, 2023 | Oral History Project, Video

Born in northeast England, John Maclennan started work at 15 and emigrated to Canada in 1965, where he became active in the United Auto Workers while working at the McDonnell Douglas aerospace plant in Malton. In 1973, he joined the Communist Party of Canada and later...
Bill Howes

Bill Howes

Jan 10, 2023 | Oral History Project, Video

Bill Howes grew up in Toronto and Sudbury, and began working at Northern Electric (later Northern Telecom) at age 19 in the early 1960s.  He began his union activism there, in the United Auto Workers. In the early 1970s he was an organizer with the Canadian Labour...
Bev Johnson

Bev Johnson

Dec 31, 2022 | Oral History Project, Video

Bev Johnson: Interview #1 Bev Johnson: Interview #2 Bev Johnson, an Ontario  Public Service Employees Union staff member from 1990 to 2006, discusses her long history of activism on human rights and employment equity.    Born in Jamaica, she came to Canada in 1959 as...
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